Reductive evolution is the process by which microorganisms remove genes from their genome. It can occur when bacteria found in a free-living state enter...
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Rickettsiales (section Reductive evolution)
bacteria, but organelles). Rickettsiales genomes are undergoing reductive evolution and are typically small (generally < 1,5 Mbp), AT-rich (generally...
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Mycobacterium leprae (section Evolution)
deletion and decay that the genome of the species has experienced via reductive evolution, which has caused the bacterium to depend heavily on its host for...
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were lost or downregulated. This process, called genome erosion or reductive evolution, has been described in several other lactic acid bacteria. The proposed...
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The Black Queen hypothesis (BQH) is a reductive evolution theory which seeks to explain how natural selection (as opposed to genetic drift) can drive...
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Genome size (redirect from Genome reduction)
intracellular species have positive fitness effects on their hosts. The reductive evolution model has been proposed as an effort to define the genomic commonalities...
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Symbiosis (section Role in evolution)
PMID 8610134. Andersson, Siv G.E; Kurland, Charles G. (July 1998). "Reductive evolution of resident genomes". Trends in Microbiology. 6 (7): 263–268. doi:10...
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Archaea (section Origin and evolution)
Caetano-Anollés D, Mittenthal JE, Caetano-Anollés G (November 2007). "Reductive evolution of architectural repertoires in proteomes and the birth of the tripartite...
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Red Queen hypothesis (category Evolution of the biosphere)
driving force of evolution on a large scale, but rather it is abiotic factors. The Black Queen hypothesis is a theory of reductive evolution that suggests...
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